WHEN WE HEAL OURSELVES WE HEAL THE WORLD WE LIVE IN
A Roadmap To Human Flourishing
Thriving in life means more than just surviving—it requires a regulated nervous system, meaningful relationships, healthy boundaries, and the confidence to embody your purpose and use your voice. To achieve this, we must somatically show the protective parts of ourselves that it’s safe to flourish, rather than simply telling them.
Our systems don’t speak a cognitive language, which is why we can’t always “think” or “talk” our way out of challenges. Somatic tools communicate safety directly to the body, creating the conditions for regulation—a state where we experience clarity, connection, and well-being.
I want you to have science-backed tools and somatic practices to unlock your potential, cultivate resilience, and step into the expansive, purposeful life you are meant to live.
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Phase 1:
Nervous System Regulation
What’s happening in your nervous system affects your thoughts, behaviors, feelings, sensations, and experience of the world and others. This is the foundation of everything else. When you gain control over your nervous system, you can gain control over your life.
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Phase 2:
Somatic Attachment
The way we relate to others is a result of what’s happening in your nervous system. There are specific therapeutic things you can do, based on what’s happening internally and the way you attach, to come toward more secure, healthy relationships.
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Phase 3:
Somatic Parts Work
Young parts show up in our adult lives all the time, often making us feel small, scared, out of control, and unsafe in our lives. When you give these parts the love, safety, attunement, and connection they need, it changes your relationships, how you show up in the world, and also what happens in your nervous system.
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Phase 4:
Knowing Your Truth & Setting Boundaries
Many of us set self-protective boundaries that are not based in our truth. Once your parts feel safe and you have regulation in your system, it becomes easier to know your internal truth, limits, and needs and set supportive boundaries from there.
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Phase 5:
Somatic Thought Work
Polyvagal Theory shows us that our autonomic state creates our story (the cognitive thinking we experience). Through working at the nervous system level, we can shift away from thinking patterns that cause dysregulation and create new neural pathways for positive thoughts.
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Phase 6:
Purpose & Manifestation
All the above work is what allows you to come back into internal safety, so that you can fully embody your purpose and flourish in your life. Manifestation and stepping toward the things you desire is possible when you work WITH your system, rather than against it.
Survival is the start, but thriving is the art.
Your life is waiting for you. Let’s get you unstuck so that you can FLOURISH.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Human Flourishing
Self-acceptance
Body Image and Breast Implant Illness
Trauma
Boundaries
Life Transitions
Relationship
Psychedelic Integration
Grief
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HEALING IS SHOW, NOT TELL
Years of training in somatics, Polyvagal theory, trauma work, and client practice have revealed a truth at the heart of human experience: much of our unhappiness, stuckness, relationship struggles, and pain stems from unhealed trauma.
Unhealed trauma lives in the body, not just as memories but as sensations, reactions, behaviors, and feelings that shape our thoughts and actions. When we are activated, the language-processing parts of our brain go offline. This is why we can’t simply think or talk our way out of these patterns—we must show our nervous system that it is safe to move forward.
Healing is the bridge from surviving to thriving. It begins by creating internal safety, the foundation for stepping into the flourishing life you are meant to live. Together, we’ll use proven approaches like Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, Attachment Theory, Inner Child Healing, and Boundaries to unlock this potential.
Explore the philosophies that anchor my practice in the dropdowns below, and discover how we can work together to help you move beyond survival and embody a life of resilience, creativity, and purpose.
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SOMATIC EXPERIENCING
Trauma is stored, relived and experienced in and through our bodies.
"The foundation for Human Enrichment, DBA Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, is a 501(C)(3) Non-Profit dedicated to resolving trauma worldwide by providing state-of-the-art professional training and public education in Somatic Experiencing® (SE™).
Somatic Experiencing is designed to support individuals in processing trauma in a titrated (tolerable) way that allows for integrated healing to transpire and brings freedom from the overwhelm that past traumas leave us with.
We have all experienced traumas and if they have yet to be resolved they will cause problems in our bodies, relationships, purpose and overall life. Somatic healing work is foundational in healing trauma.
In essence, somatics heal. And that means we no longer have to cope and instead can step into the lives we are meant to be living.
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POLYVAGAL THEORY:
WHY YOUR PROTECTIVE PARTS ARE SO IMPORTANT.
“Polyvagal Theory, developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, offers a way to understand the human autonomic nervous system and directly engage with habitual patterns of response. Through a polyvagal lens we can learn to listen to our embodied stories.”
-Deb Dana
Our Autonomic Nervous System is what you’ll hear me refer to as your own private navy seals. This incredible protective force within each of us is here to protect us from threat and danger and also support us in being in safety.
When traumas are stored and/or an insecure attachment style is developed, our Autonomic Nervous System becomes dysregulated as a brilliant and beautiful way to self protect.
This is experienced by spending the majority of our time in either our Sympathetic Nervous System or our Dorsal Vagal Complex. This means being in fight/flight/freeze/immobility or shut down for long periods of time.
A dysregulated nervous system is an incredibly common experience and is a primary marker for unhappiness in our lives.
Through somatic healing you will begin to regulate your nervous systems, which will allow you to step into the life you want to be living and support you in feeling more in control of your internal experience, so that outside circumstances aren’t chronically effecting your state. description
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ATTACHMENT THEORY
“Early-life experiences lay the blueprints for attachment patterns. When the primary childhood caregivers are unable, for whatever reason, to meet the child's needs of safety, trust, attunement, love etc., a secure attachment is inhibited."
- Diane Poole Heller
This lack of a secure attachment with our primary childhood caregivers results in the development of insecure attachment styles in order to cope and find safety.
These include ambivalent (anxious), avoidant or disorganized. We all have a combination of all four attachment styles with one being more predominant. Insecure attachment styles are here to serve the purpose of providing safety among other things.
An intrinsic part of healing is coming into a secure attachment with others and ourselves.
Our work together is helping you safely step towards this.
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INNER CHILD HEALING:
"It's never too late to have the childhood we deserve."
-Peter Levine
Inside each of us, there are many parts. Each of those parts have ages and if they were subject to trauma of any kind that was not able to process through, those parts are then left to relive that experience over and over.
Remember, trauma is not simply physical/emotional/sexual abuse. Trauma is also not being emotional seen, or attuned with, being left alone to process parents divorcing, being a parentifed child and much more.
Part of our work is to somatically come to the aid of these younger parts, giving them completed experiences, protecting them, providing them safety, reparenting them and eventually, integrating them fully. This work is imperative in the healing process.
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Boundaries
Boundary setting is a struggle for so many of us...
If we did not have a secure attachment with our primary childhood caregiver or if we experienced traumas in childhood where our boundaries were encroached upon or we experienced boundary abandonment, we will likely struggle to set boundaries in our adult life.
Boundary setting is directly linked to understanding our limits, our needs and our truth. Part of healing is gently coming back into our felt sense experience of being in our bodies where we gain access to our truth, limits and needs.
In our work, you will gain an understanding of your internal truth, then take therapeautic somatic steps to implement these boundaries in your current life. Boundaries create safety!
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As you may have heard, breast implants are not lifetime or problem-free devices. At some point, you may want or need to remove yours, and you may feel uneasy every step of the way. Even if you want to be implant-free, you may struggle as you move toward explant and as you adjust to your body afterwards.
Because there’s more than meets the eye with breast implants; there’s a deeply felt inner journey as well.
My goal is to help you move through your breast implant or explant journey on your terms, without continued domination by society’s “rules” about women and breasts. Defying those rules can feel threatening. But you don’t have to white-knuckle your way through explant’s harder-to-see inner journey. No matter how difficult your thoughts and feelings may be, or where you are in your journey, I help you mindfully reconnect with what matters deep down to you and then use those things to guide your way.
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Saline and Silicone implants are made toxic chemicals and carcinogens that cause serious health problems. An implant will always be an unnatural, foreign object in your body, and your immune system will recognise it as such. From the moment the implant is placed in the body, your immune system is activated. It wants to ‘protect’ your body from this intruder by forming a capsule, made from your own scar tissue, around the implant. As this capsule becomes contaminated with the chemicals from the implant (heavy metals, even bacteria and mould have been found in explanted capsules), your body will never see this tissue as its own, leading to a continuously heightened immune system. The porous nature of this capsule does not contain the aforementioned microscopic toxic particles that are released via gel bleed and can thus spread all over the body causing more damage.
This physical stress means the immune system is fighting continuously. 24/7. This takes a lot of energy, energy that is otherwise directed at healing, keeping your organs working optimally and keeping you generally healthy. The implants are the trigger that pushes the body into a highly inflamed state and an imbalanced immune system which we now know lead numerous chronic health problems and autoimmune diseases. In other words, it leads to Breast Implant Illness.
Explanting, removal of the implants and the surrounding capsules, is highly recommended so that your body can reset and start to heal itself. Our bodies will always find a way to maintain what is know as homeostasis (balance), so once the source of toxicity is removed, it will work at healing itself provided it is nourished physically and psychologically
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The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and the people with whom we are in relationship is to take responsibility for our own healing.
The more that we heal and commit to our own development in this lifetime, the better chance we have of breaking intergenerational trauma and not passing along the same patterns of wounding or suffering to our children.
The more that we heal our own wounds, the more capacity we have to be in authentic relationship with others and care for our society at large.
“Jax is a bridge between the academic and the human, inviting people to explore the good, bad, downright ugly, and beautiful sides of connection. I think of her as an emotional translator, empowering me to give words to my feelings, step into courage, and create a life + love I’ll look back on with a resounding YES.
Most of all, she is a human being, who happens to say the things that people tend to keep to themselves.”
—Grace
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